Michael Hawker
Technical Content Creator 🦙 JetBrains
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Michael is a Technical Content Creator at JetBrains focused on gamedev and .NET. He's worked with .NET for over a decade and Godot for over 3 years. In his spare time he loves to tinker, testing out game ideas on his personal website, https://mikeware.com/, as well as occasionally attempt a game jam (see some successes on itch.io: https://mikeware.itch.io). He's been making games for decades, his most popular an early free Windows Mobile game Suitor with over 175k downloads worldwide.
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What's new in WinUI and Windows App SDK 1.6
Companies are building apps used by millions of users on Windows Desktop with WinUI and Windows App SDK. Are you missing out? Come here and find out! This session will cover the latest features released in WinUI and the Windows App SDK, its integration with .NET and Native AOT, how you can get started using these technologies in your Win32 applications, and a look ahead!
Use C# with Godot to make Games!
Have you been wanting to make a game using C#? Godot is an easy-to-use open source game engine which makes it easy to get started!
In this session we'll show you how to start a new project and how to easily connect game objects to C# to build your game.
Then we'll add a NuGet reference to the MVVM Toolkit for their amazing Messenger class to easily decouple events between game objects instead of using Godot's signals/events!
MVVM Building Blocks for WinUI and WPF Development
Embark with us on a hands-on journey to acquire the foundational elements of modern Windows app development. We'll show you how XAML, Data Binding, and MVVM come together to empower your development process, increase agility, and simplify your codebase!
You'll end up with the essential skills to start crafting applications with WinUI or WPF and empower yourself to create robust, scalable, and maintainable Windows applications.
Community Toolkit Roundup
Join a lively discussion with maintainers of the Community Toolkits: the .NET Community Toolkit, the MAUI Community Toolkit, and the Windows Community Toolkit. Learn about these open-source projects which aim to provide useful and high-quality components, controls, and utilities for .NET developers.
Discover how you can get involved, contribute, and benefit from these amazing toolkits that cover various .NET platforms and technologies. Whether you are developing desktop, mobile, web, or cross-platform applications, there is a Toolkit for you!
How the Community Toolkit streamlines development of Microsoft built apps and your apps alike!
Did you know that in-box apps like Clock, the Microsoft Store, and others are using and contributing to the open source Windows Community Toolkit? We'll show you how to use the same features they’re using like Animations, Shadows, Authentication, and more! Get the same great experiences you see in the apps you use every day, but in your own apps! And the best part? They're all open source on GitHub too!
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Michael Hawker
Technical Content Creator 🦙 JetBrains
Seattle, Washington, United States
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